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Roblox, Reddit and Discord users compelled to use biometric ID system backed by Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel
(www.openrightsgroup.org)
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this post was submitted on 17 Feb 2026
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They are trying to make it seem like they care about kids at the same time they released the Epstein files... While Trump is lying saying he is not guilty / not in them. They are trying to rile up their base even more and encite violence towards their political enemies. People have been calling for violence on Twitter and ramping it up. I am sick of leftist platforms censoring so much because its very scary.
compelled to use
I gotta say, a lot of the compulsion seems to be around "adult content" which is fairly easy to avoid in most cases.
I would be more interested in how these rules tend to target LGBTQ+ groups for censorship than how they slap a "teenagers" tag on anyone who isn't feeding them biometric data. This feels like another edition of "straight is normal, gay is sex" Christian orthodoxy being codified into the digital landscape.
This compels me to learn deepfakes, which seems not too hard as long as you have sufficient hardware... Or if not then those Death Stranding like methods might still work :AyameHmm:
It's quite doable. If you have pretty much any not-prehistoric GPU, you can run quantized Z-Image turbo. If it's a not-ancient Nvidia GPU, you can run a 4-bit SVDquant version extremely quickly.
There may even be versions runnable on Intel IGPs or beefy CPUs these days, though I have not personally investigated this.
Or you can just use the Artbot through the AI Horde for a deepfake, with no corporate servers involved. It's crowdsourced inference, basically the equivalent of the Fediverse.
Its really easy
Complete anecdote, but without exception, every non-corporate Discord community I am a member of is evaluating something like Zulip or Element right now with the majority of the users ready to jump ship.
The guy that said:
Finding things on their way to collapse was much easier than finding the next bargain.
I genuinely don't understand how is he still free and alive. He's as close to a real life devil you'd find. In his own words - he's working on societal collapse to gain more power. Can someone do something already?
So no more bots on Reddit then right????
We're solving the Reddit bot problem the same way we solved the Twitter bot problem.
I'm sure the market will innovate and give us rentable biometrics.
I bet there will always be bots on reddit. It's so politicized, countries like Russia, US, China will always run farms there.
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I’m permaband from Reddit but I miss some local subs. I hope this encourages people to move away to something else.
Unfortunately probably a lot fewer will move than we expect. People seem capable of accepting all sorts of shittification in favour of actively changing their platform. Just look at how many still uses twitter, despite its literal nazification.
That honestly isn't possible. I have several accounts perma banned and I just make new ones. VMs circumvent hardware ID mapping, VPNs circumvent IP banning. Until they require phone numbers to create accounts circumventing their bans is childs play.
If I have to go through any of that it really isn’t worth it.
Virtual phone numbers can be spun up in seconds
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I still say we should get one of those shit flingers from a farm and give Reddit HQ a good smothering.
Well anyways, lemmy seems fine
Once governments realise it exists, they will look to start blocking it.
And I'm compelled to tell them to suck my ass.
Write it on a post-it and make a photo of it when they ask for your face verification.
I have not experienced such on Reddit myself, but I am diversifying my use, just in case.
This place looks nice so I've created an account and set up a new bookmark.
Welcome!
Is anyone suprised?
Literally Spez right now...
(I'd post the uncensored image but IIRC Lemmy World is German-based and have strict laws against Nazi iconography)
He's wilfully given the data of users who have criticized Trump and ICE, AND he looks like a spitting image of Tintin...
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Abandon all of these platforms and any others that associate in any way with Palantir or Thiel
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